Fingerspelling as a Novel Gateway into Reading Fluency in Deaf Bilinguals.
Studies have shown that American Sign Language (ASL) fluency has a positive impact on deaf individuals' English reading, but the cognitive and cross-linguistic mechanisms permitting the mapping of a visual-manual language onto a sound-based language have yet to be elucidated. Fingerspelling, wh...
Main Authors: | Adam Stone, Geo Kartheiser, Peter C Hauser, Laura-Ann Petitto, Thomas E Allen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4591273?pdf=render |
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